The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO

UNESCO

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations...

) monitors both the number and type of
books published per country per year as an important index of standard of living and education, and of a country's self-awareness.

Highlights

• Britain overtook the U.S. in 2006 for the second time in 20 years; the last time was 2001.
• New titles in the UK increased by 28 per cent in 2005–6, whereas output in the U.S. dropped 18 per cent.

List of countries

In descending order of number of new titles per year, as of the latest year available, sometimes 'new titles and editions':

1.  United States (2009) 288,355 ("new titles and editions")
2.  United Kingdom (2005) 206,000
3.  Mainland China (2007) 136,226
4.  Russia (2008) 123,336
5.  Germany (2009) 93,124 (new titles)
6.  Spain (2008) 86,300
7.  India (2004) 82,537 (21,370 in Hindi and 18,752 in English
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   )
8.  Japan (2009) 78,555
9.  Early Modern France (2010) 67,278 (63,690 new titles)
10.  Iran (2010) 65,000
11.  Italy (2005) 59,743 (33,641 new titles)
12.  Republic of China (2007) 42,018
13.  South Korea (2010) 40,291
14.  Turkey (2010) 34,863
15.  Sweden (2008) 34,320 (4,365 new titles)
16.  Netherlands (1993) 34,067
17.  Poland (2010) 31,500
18.  Vietnam (2009) 24,589
19.  Indonesia (2009) more than 24,000
20.  Brazil (2009) 22,027
21.  Mexico (2007) 20,300
22.  Canada (1996) 19,900
23.  Malaysia (2009) 15,767
24.  Switzerland (1996) 15,371
25.  Kingdom of Romania (2008) 14,984
26.  Ukraine (2004) 14,790
27.  Belgium (1991) 13,913
28.  Finland (2006) 13,656
29.  Thailand (2009) 13,607
30.  Belarus (2009) 12,885
31.  Denmark (1996) 12,352
32.  Czech Republic (1996) 10,244
33.  Argentina (1996) 9,850
34.  Hong Kong (2000) 9,773
35.  Hungary (1996) 9,193
36.  Egypt (2000) 9,022
37.  Australia (2004) 8,602
38.  Austria (1996) 8,056
39.  Portugal (1996) 7,868
40.  Israel (2006) 6,866
41.  Greece (2002) 6,826
42.  South Africa (1995) 5,418
43.  Sri Lanka (1996) 4,115
44.  Saudi Arabia (1996) 3,900
45.  Lebanon (2005) 3,686
46.  Myanmar (1993) 3,660
47.  New Zealand (2003) 3,600
48.  Venezuela (1996) 3,468
49.  Afghanistan (1990) 2,795
50.  Chile (1995) 2,469
51.  Latvia (1996) 1,965
52.  Iceland (2007) 1,533
53.  Philippines (1996) 1,507
54.  Nigeria (1991) 1,314
55.  Kazakhstan (1996) 1,226
56.  Syria (2004) 1,138
57.  Uzbekistan (1996) 1,003
58.  Uruguay (1996) 934
59.  Cyprus (1996) 930
60.  Morocco (1996) 918
61.  Tunisia (1996) 720
62.  Algeria (1996) 670
63.  Peru (1996) 612
64.  Georgia (country) (1998) 581
65.  Azerbaijan (1996) 542
66.  Jordan (1996) 511
67.  Turkmenistan (1994) 450
68.  Kyrgyzstan (1998) 420
69.  Malta (1995) 404
70.  Fiji (1994) 401
71.  Armenia (1996) 396
72.  Albania (1991) 381
73.  Kenya (1994) 300
74.  United Arab Emirates (1993) 293
75.  Uganda (1996) 288
76.  Mongolia (1992) 285
77.  Ethiopia (1991) 240
78.  Zimbabwe (1992) 232
79.  Vatican City (1996) 228
80.  Qatar (1996) 209
81.  Kuwait (1992) 196
82.  Tanzania (1990) 172
83.  Botswana (1991) 158
84.  Paraguay (1993) 152
85.  Tajikistan (1996) 132
86.  Papua New Guinea (1991) 122
87.  Madagascar (1996) 119
88.  Malawi (1996) 117
89.  Palestinian territories (1996) 114
90.  Namibia (1990) 106
91.  Eritrea (1993) 106
92.  Brunei (2009) 91
93.  Laos (1995) 88
94.  Benin (1994) 84
95.  Mauritius (1996) 80
96.  Réunion (1992) 69
97.  Democratic Republic of the Congo (1992) 64
98.  Andorra (1994) 57
99.  Suriname (1996) 47
100.  Guyana (1996) 42
101.  Monaco (1990) 41
102.  Bahrain (1996) 40
103.  Ghana (1992) 28
104.  Libya (1994) 26
105.  Angola (1995) 22
106.  Mali (1995) 14
107.  The Gambia (1996) 14
108.  Burkina Faso (1996) 12
109.  Ecuador (1995) 12
110.  Oman (1996) 7

External links

• Goldfarb, Jeff. "Bookish Britain overtakes America as top publisher", Reuters Entertainment, May 10, 2006, retrieved May 11, 2006.
• "Understanding Israel's Book Market", Haaretz, December 23, 2005.
• UNESCO. "Europe", Book production: number of titles by UDC classes, UNESCO Institute of Statistics, retrieved May 11, 2006
• UNESCO "America", Book production: number of titles by UDC classes, UNESCO Institute of Statistics, retrieved May 11, 2006
• UNESCO "Asia", Book production: number of titles by UDC classes, UNESCO Institute of Statistics, retrieved May 11, 2006
• UNESCO "Africa", Book production: number of titles by UDC classes, UNESCO Institute of Statistics, retrieved May 11, 2006
• UNESCO "Oceania", Book production: number of titles by UDC classes, UNESCO Institute of Statistics, retrieved May 11, 2006
• Book Stats In Iran

Further reading

• Wresch, William. Have and Have-Nots in the Information Age. Rutgers University
  Rutgers University
  Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey , is the largest institution for higher education in New Jersey, United States. It was originally chartered as Queen's College in 1766. It is the eighth-oldest college in the United States and one of the nine Colonial colleges founded before the American...
  
  Press, 1996. ISBN 0813523702